Last night’s TV: Dan Snow’s History of Congo

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The historian’s exploration of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a true journey into the heart of darkness

Dan Snow’s History of Congo
BBC Two
★★★★☆

Medieval Lives
BBC Four
★★★★☆

Shaken yet stirred by 9/11, Tony Blair told the 2001 Labour conference that
the “international community” could, “with our help”, “sort out the blight
that is the continuing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”
that had cost three million lives. In his History of Congo, Dan Snow
pointed out that the United Nations has since put more than money and effort
into saving Congo than into any other country on Earth. To show for it, the
death toll now stands at five million — impressively for